Andrew Schulz

And so what I wonder is, were the Olmecs not trying to genetically breed people who looked like this?

And if you were born with ectodermal dysplasia... That gave you higher status.

It gave you higher status, and you were born with some kind of intrinsic power.

The thing on top of this is, there are all these things called were-jaguar alters.

If we can look up alter for Olmec...

we have all these uh where jaguar alters that we know that uh pre where jaguar priests would like sit on top of it but the depiction so you could go to um so that one right there if you can if you could possibly zoom in on that so that is a that is a where jaguar priest with an elongated skull underneath that hat he's carrying a baby and he's emerging from a portal which is actually a cave these caves are in guerrero mexico

That baby, when you stand over him, I've been to this site many, many times.

That baby, when you stand over him, he's got these downturned lips like a cat.

He's got fangs coming out of his mouth, and so does the man carrying him.

And what I think this depicts is a sacred procession that is symbolizing the priest who would actually be sitting on top of this monument, like this powerful priest.

The image below him is a screenshot of his sacred procession that he went through as a child being carried in and out of the caves of Guerrero, Mexico.

And it's like the procession that when he was born as a werejaguar, he was taken on and essentially imbued with the power of the werejaguar and came back out.

And so from... This is all just my theory.

And I think that we see examples of...

Like in ancient Egypt, how we see that the pharaohs were warring against the priests because the priests would become super powerful.

You see the same thing in the Olmec realm.

You'll see Olmec heads.

Lots of archaeologists can determine the way that something is buried if it's buried immediately because the stratigraphic layers are all messed up.

They don't form naturally.

They form like immediately.